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The word 'sweit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sweitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.63422
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 52.4 4 2
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of sweit in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tchan noo the guff o Astrid's sweit, an her awn. Turn, sheu think on page 82

1 matches

South Northern

Robb, Lydia AUNTIE BEAN UNDRESSES, (Association for Scottish Literary Studies 2005 ISBN: 978-0948877698) Doric - Arbroath, poetry
the warm smell o soap an sweit on page 123

1 matches

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
es. They run oan the spot, an sweit tae swagger.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
plaistered wi coal stour and sweit, they will be back-bowed and on page 136

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
in wir sweit an wir bluid an wir spits.
1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Boswell’s Coort, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
The sweit frae wir broos,
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
e tae move or speak. A sype o sweit trinkled his brinkie-broo but on page 125

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Wha, like a god, demandit sweit an tears, on page 27
in ma servant's lug, a cauld sweit rinnin doon ma back. on page 123

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
hairt began tae thump an the sweit burst oot on his foreheid he on page 65
raveyaird. His een starin, an sweit pourin doun his brou, he skit on page 66
hairt began tae thump an the sweit burst oot on his forcheid, He on page 69

4 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
pross. Thai tyned nae tyme in sweit naethins bot telt o aw thair on page 4

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Frichtsome sweit jeeled oan stale straw, on page 112

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
He wis het noo, an drookit wi sweit. She recognised on his braith
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
t it's as naitural as haein a sweit on page 12

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Here it's comin, it's comin, sweit rins doon yer neck. on page 141

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
auld for this fechtin. Throu sweit-blint een he watched bemused on page 37
grued, an brak intae a cauld sweit. In a near dwam he juist mana on page 53
u that wis dreipin wi a cauld sweit - an grabbin the lass's sark on page 65

3 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
A life o constant hardship, sweit an tears,
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
braw - but if ah sweit, ah've blawn it... on page 62

1 matches

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
an again I wakkit in a cauld sweit, an prayed for day tae come, on page 60

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
s lik yill, gomeril, bit mair sweit an strang oan the tung.' on page 14

4 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
e, yet he could feel naethin. Sweit seemed tae be trauchlin oot h on page 17

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
A sowl o sweit delicht maun ner by fyled. on page 80

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Daein it yersel, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
d tae bring me oot in a cauld sweit.
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
cht, her tunic wis drookit wi sweit, her legs were smoored wi mud
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Hearts wur felt wi joy sae sweit on page 18

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
mair frae tha hairt, tae tha sweit wus faain aff hïm tae tha gr on page 107

1 matches

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